PRINCETON, Ind. (WEHT) – Eight hard-working 8th graders from Princeton Community Middle School, 4 boys and 4 girls, will soon embark on the trip of a lifetime. “Usually I go with family,” says Conner Dewig, “but this time I’m actually going with school members and friends.”
Dewig says he has been to Disney before, but this time, he will have one of his best friends by his side in classmate Landon Poling. “First I was like, I was happy and nervous at the same time,” recalls Dewig, “but once I got up there I was really getting nervous because I wanted a good friend to go, basically. And once I heard him, I was super happy.”
“Walking up there,” adds Poling, “I don’t know, it just felt like a dream.”
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